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IN MOUNTAIN WILDS
Roosevelt Braves Ferocious
Beasts in Their Lairs.
THE ACTUAL HUNT BEGINS
Civilization Is Left Behind and Plunge
Made Into Depths of Rockies.
President Will Avoid Hand
to-Hand Contests.
President Roosevelt and his hunting
party reached Newcastle, Cal., a fam
OU8 outfittlng point lor the river, at
7:60 a. m., Saturday, and waited more
than two hours lor official mail that
had been sent to Redstone, where it
had been Intended that the seat o£
government should be established
while the president was away in the
mountains hunting bear, bob cats and
Other game.
But the time in Newcastle was
pleasantly occupied. The president
Shook hands with a majority ol the
400 citizens of the village, alter he
had been introduced by George H.
Norris, mayor of Newcastle, who an
nouncus on hls card that he does
blacksmlthing and wagon making. The
party was photographed, the presi
dent made a brief address, shook
hands with the train crew and viewed
the specially decorated engine that
drew his train from Colorado Springs.
The run to the village was pleas
ant. Huge bonfires lighted the inhabitants the way j j
during the night, and
of the towns en route stayed up until
far into the morning to cheer the
president as ho passed through. Get
ting up early the party had their
breakfast ol fresh mountain trout on
the train, and magnificent with curtains raised along j
viewed the scenery
the route of the Colorado.
When the train pulled into New
castle, the president, dressed in his j
shooting clothes of heavy tan duck,
greeted the people from the rear plat- j
form. He was cheered wildly. Af
ter the speech was made and the
little conventionalities had been ob
served, the president gave personal
supervision to his hunting outfit. He
sheathed his knife and felt Its keen
ed. ge, examined his gun, and saw to
It that It was In fine working order,
and looked over the horse that had
been selected for his ride to the camp.
Thls animal Is white, weighing about
1,100 pounds, and Is about 14 1-2 hands
znostJfWed Nffh. It is said to be one of the
mountain climbers in
country, fiut is not
noted for* In fact, all of the
norses selected for the party are built
for hard rather than fast work.
John Goff, Jake Borali and Brick
P. Wells, the guides, in picturesque
mountain costumes, busied themselves
in giving commands for the start.
Before starting, the president an
nounced confidentially that he was
not going into any hand-to-hand en
counters with grizzles, nor strangle
any mountain Hons with hare hands.
He does not expect to bag a record
breaking amount of game, and Ail!
feel satisfied if he gets one bear dur
ing the hunt, and particularly fortun
ate If he gets two.
His rapid-firing rifle was exhibited
with great pride as a protection Ee
will constantly keep between himself
and danger.
At 11:15 o’clock the party started
at an easy canter over the hills to the
permanent camp of the party, which is
located at East Divide creek on
Charles Penny’s ranch, twenty-three
miles southwest of Newcastle. There
is about a foot of snow in that re
gion and bear tracks were seen in
plenty. V hen the party had gone out
of sight the president’s train was re
turned to Glenwood Springs, where
Secretary Loeb Is to have his head
quarters.
Real Estate Broker Fails.
Earl Patterson, real estate broker,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy at
Chicago. Liabilities, $130,000; assets,
|42,000.
UNIVERSITY HAS PRESIDENT.
Eightieth Anniversary of Virginia In
stitution Sees Radical Change.
In th* eightieth year of its career
and on the anniversary of the birth of
Thomas Jefferson, its illustrious found
er, the University of Virginia at Char
lottesville, Friday, inaugurated its
first president, Dr. Edwin Anderson
Alderman, The affairs of the in
stitution have heretofore been con
ducted by a board of regents, but re
cent development of the university
have rendered its efficient administra
tion impracticable under the old meth
ods and the change is made to meet
the larger demands.
HOSPITAL SHIP AT SAIGON.
One of Rojestvensky’s Vessels Puts
Into Port for Provisions.
A Manila dispatch says: Rear Ad
miral Train, in command of the Amer
ican fleet in Asiatic waters, received
a telegram Friday afternoon from Sai
gon, the capital and principal port of
French Cochin-China, reporting the
arrival there of the Russian hospital
ship Orel.
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Delegates to Good Roads Meet,
Governor Terrell has appointed for
<y . five delegates to attend the con
ven tion of the National Good Roads
association, which will he held at
Baton Rouge, La., April 28 to 29. The
appointments were made at the re
: quest of the association and the gov
ernor 0 f Louisiana,
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New Colony is Booming.
. A. N. Lund, a member of the St.
George colony company, speaks in
terestlng iy 0 f the growth of St.
Geor g e) and states that three brick
Mocks and fifty residences are under
, construction in the colony town, and
j eas j. y ir ee hundred people are per
manently located there,
Mr Lund thinks that within a
year . g time tfie population of St.
George will be two or three thousand,
and that lt win S00I1 become a little
city _
Crenshaw Loses His Suit.
Former Rai]road CommissioIler
Tbomag c Crenshaw ]ost his Buit
against the Pullman Palace Car com
the ju in Judge Newman’s
court at Atlanta bringing in a ver .
djct fQr tbe defendant
The lajntif£ in tMg cage asked fot
Q for , injuries allege d
tQ haye been Conductor sustained at the han ds
Qf Pu]Iman J. H. Kirk
. land, who cut him with a knife while
Qn a Western and Atlantic train be
tween Atlanta and Marietta. The at
fair occurred several years ago, while
Mr. Crenshaw was a member of the
railroad commission.
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Complain Over Escaped Convicts.
Complaint reaches the prison com
mission from Savannah and Chatham
county to the effect that a large
number of convicts sent from Chat
ham superior court to the state peni
tentiary have recently been allowed
to escape, some of them being life
convicts, and the officials there ap
pear to be very much stirred up over
the matter.
According to the records at the of
fice of the prison commission, twelve
Chatham county convicts have escap
ed from the penitentiary since Jan
uary 1, 1904. Secretary Goodloe Yan
cey prepared a list of these to be
sent to Savanhah’s chief of police to
aid him in recapturing any that may
have returned to the city.
Negroes Slay White Man.
A horrible tragedy was committed
near Broughton, a station on the
Central railroad, 15 miles east of Cov
ington, at ! a late hour Saturday night.
Kelsey Cranford, a white man, 22
years old, accompanied by his young
er brother, Walter Cranford, while
walking along the public road, was'
fired upon by four unknown negroes.
The elder Cranford w.as killed out
right, while his younger brother re
ceived the contents of one load of
buckshot in his left arm. He outran
the assassins and gave the alarm.
Young Cranford was not able to
identify the murderers. Mujl pxcite
ment prevails in the commu U jt
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No Locusts Coming This®F-ear.
There will be no 17-year locusts in
Georgia and Alabama this year, as was
stated in a story sent out from Louis
ville, Ky., purporting to have come
from Professor H. Garman, the ento
mologist of that state. Professor Gar
man has written a letter to SAh3 En
tomologist R. I. Smith of GeorJja, in
which he says the report is holly
untrue, and that he gave out such
information.
There will he a brood, of we- year
locusts this year- P,«il v ussor > Tfemith iflinols,
says; in Wisconsin, northern"
northern Indiana and possi in
southern Michigan, hut it vijll be
confined to those states. i
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Profits of Rome’s Liquor nt.
The annual report of the Rolie dis
pensary has been made public and
shows that concern to be the biggest
kind of a money maker.
The total sales for the year amount
to $170,502.66. Amount of profits to
the city and county for the year is
given as $39,613,04. That amount is
the net profit after all salaries and
operating expenses have been deduct
ed. The present stock, which is an
average, is given as $21,338.99. Of
the profits shown $1,292.45 comes from
the sale of empty bottles and bar
rels.
Since its establishment the dispen
sary has paid the city and county
$75,818.04 .
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Prize Won by Newton County.
In the Arbor day contest Newtoa
county made the best report and there
fore gets the first prize, a library of
sixty well bound volumes valued at
$40. These, together with the sixty
volumes, donated by Hon. Hoke Smith
for excellency in library work, will
be added to the county’s already ex
tensive circulating school library.
In the Arbor day work Randolph
county won second prize, while the
third prize was won by Fulton. Bald
win county came fourth in the list.
The total number of trees, vines,
etc., planted by the school children
of Newton county was 20,511.
The number of peach trees planted
was 5,859; apple, 1,577; grape, 1,297;
strawberry, 3,933; raspberry, 1,158;
pear, 354; plum, 374; fig, 217; pecan,
214. The list contains thirty-nine dif
ferent varieties of trees, vines and
plants.
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Lumpkin to “Hello” to Cutbtx
The Southern Bell. Telephone nd
Telegraph company is at work a
line between Lumpkin and Cut*iterr,
via Benevolence. The new limp .Will
be opened for business in a ^hort
while. It is generally snppos d
that the building of this line means
that believe the that people the have Georgia, good Floridji reasjpn to
extended and
Alabama road is to be from
Cuthbert to Columbus, via Benevo
to lence get and in Lumpkin, the and are hjirrying
on ground floor. I
Would Tax Women’s Dre; es.
To the raise municipal money for council the French of " treas
ury Cour
tine gravely proposes that a taxi should
be levied on every dress a woman pos
sesses over and above one fc; every
day wear and one for Sundijys and
fete days. I
AUNT SUE FAVORS DIVORCE.
Champion Old Maid Throws Gaft Into
Bad Husbands.
Over the bitter protest of Miss Su
san B. Anthony, the National Coun
cil of Women in session at Wash
ington adopted a resolution pledging
the organization to co-operate with
church and state to ascertain what
are the chief causes which induce or
lead up to divorce. Divorce, the res
olution cites, is known to cause most
disastrous results in the family and
state. “I do not consider divorce
an evil by any means,” asserted Miss
Anthony, who was on her feet before
the reading of the resolution was con
cluded. “It is just as much a refuge
for women married to brutal men as
Canada was once a refuge from brutal
masters. I will never vote for a res
olution that will cut women off from
refuge from designing and brutal
men.”
DESTRUCTIVE WORK OF POWDER
Three Men Killed, Three Injured and
Property Destroyed in Accident.
Three men were killed, three in
jured amd considerable damage was
done to .property at Trenton, Tenn.,
Saturday by the explosion of some
powder In the rear of a hardware
•tore. The killed were:
Robert Phelan, owner of the store;
Mr. Arnold of Crocket county; Dr.
Parker of Trenton. Two white men
and a negro v/ere injured.
Mr. Phelan was trying a target
gun. It is thought a ball penetrated
a can of powder In the storehouse,
and caused the explosion. The store
was practically demolished; the store
house of J. A. Landis adjoining wa3
wrecked, and the meat market of
Pearce – Klopp badly damaged. Near
ly every business house in the vi
cinity was damaged to some extent.
oyama Heard from.
Constant Skirmishing in Manchuria Is
Reported by the Japanese.
The following announcement was
made at Tokio Saturday from the
headquarters of the Japanese armies
in Manchuria:
“Our force advancing east along the
Hallung road defeated a body of the
enemy April 14, near Heishihmu, 10
miles east of Panshi, and vigorously
chased them towards Lachotsu, 26
miles east of Panshi. Another force
advancing north from Sing King at
tacked the enemy holding a position
five miles south of Pachatsu.
“There has been no change else
where in the military situation.”
TO ENCOURAGE ITS AGENTS.
Equitable Assurance Society Will Pay
Them Four Dollars Per Thousand.
The Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety of New York, through Gage E
Tarbell, its second vice president, has
issued a circular to its general agents,
Indicating its intention to pay $4 per
$1,000 on new insurance in addition
to the commissions specified in Their
contracts.
The present trouble in this society
has, of course, added to the work of
agents and perhaps slightly cut down
their income.
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